Social Europe - ensuring cohesion in the EU budget

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Submission of a statement in accordance with Article 23 III of the Basic Law: Efforts in the negotiations on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) to establish a binding earmarking of EU funds for the policy areas of regional development, promotion of rural areas and social affairs, including commitment to an independently managed budget that is separate from agricultural and other cohesion funds and earmarked for the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (ESSR). the European Social Fund (ESF+) as well as continued targeted support for structurally weak regions and rural areas, rejection of the reallocation of funds for social affairs in favor of military spending and the use of the performance-based approach to allocating funds, use of funds from the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) exclusively for integration and education measures, provision of at least 30 percent of the social budget for social inclusion and at least 25 percent of each National and Regional Partnership Plan (NRPP) for the implementation of the ESSR, maintaining separate intervention rates for supporting vulnerable groups, binding and codified participation of regions, municipalities, social partners and civil society as well as the European Parliament in the development of the NRPP<br /> <br /> Reference: Suggestion for a Council regulation establishing the multiannual financial framework for the years 2028 to 2034, COM (2025) 571 final, Council document. 11691/25 (BR-Drs 334/25) ; Proposal for a Council decision on the system of own resources of the European Union and repealing Decision (EU, Euratom) 2020/2053, COM(2025) 574 final; Council doc. 11705/25 (BR-Drs 335/25)

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